Ted Cruz

And the answer was five to seven years.

So the first million you add would take longer.

Right, right.

And you could keep going up from there.

I also am talking to refiners.

So Venezuela produces what is called heavy sour crude, which is a different sort of crude than in West Texas.

They produce what's called light sweet crude.

you refine them very, very differently.

Now, it so happens that the refineries that were built to handle heavy sour crude are along the Gulf Coast.

They're in Texas and Louisiana.

And so we've got the capacity.

I've been told that the Gulf Coast refineries could almost overnight refine an additional 250,000 barrels of the heavy crude from Venezuela.

Now, interestingly enough, when I've asked the refiners, okay, what would the trade-off be?

What would the impact be, say, for West Texas producers?

The refiners, at least, were not that concerned about it, and they said, look, the other producers of heavy crude are Canada, and so the tar sands in Alberta, and I said, look, more Venezuelan crude would impact Canada, and actually Mexico.

Mexico also produces similar crude to what Venezuela and Canada produce, and so

That, in terms of the impact, those are the tradeoffs, and that's the kind of decision-making the Trump administration is engaged in right now.

So look, the Cuban regime has been a communist dictatorship since 1959.

As you know, that for me is not some abstract statement because my family was directly involved in it.

My dad was a kid.